Re: unknown flashing high object
Rainer Kracht (0412188960-0001@t-online.de)
Mon, 30 Oct 95 23:24 +0100
>From: Kurt Jonckheere <kjonckheere@unicall.be>
>Subject: unknown flashing high object
>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 95 19:38:14 W. Europe Standard Time+0000
>Hello,
>
>today, I got a phone call from Herman Willaert, Gistel, Belgium.
>Some days ago while he was observing the minor planet Merope he saw a flashing
high satellite passing
through the eyepiece of his telecsope. The flash period was approx. 10 seconds,
and it took about 3 min to pass
through 1 degree.
>The max magnitude of the flashes was estimated as +4 !
>
>Who can identify this object. I checked the sats of the program.rob file, but
Sat from Patrick Wils found no
object at the right place.
>Who can make a thorough search?
>
>Herman Willaert, Gistel, Belgium
>Observing place and time:
>Latitude: 51 degrees 9 minutes north, height 5 m above sea-level
>Longitude: 2 degrees 55 minutes east
>1995 October 25 21h32 UT RA: 23h28m Dec: -17 degr
>(estimated times)21h35 RA: 23h36m Dec: -15 degr 30 min
>flashing period: 10s, with double flash
With el951029 from ftp.physics.ox.ac.uk/pub/sat/mirrors/elem I found only
two candidates (both don't really match the observations):
74093 A
1 07544U 74093 A 95299.04656405 -.00000133 00000-0 10000-3 0 2521
2 07544 10.0799 46.3539 0001539 194.6986 165.2101 0.99793566 13575
75077 A
1 08132U 75077 A 95294.00101102 -.00000061 00000-0 10000-3 0 3484
2 08132 13.7541 30.4564 0007354 90.6195 269.3901 0.99980987 30549
74-93A = Intelsat 4 F-8
75-77A = Symphonie 2
Rainer Kracht
0412188960-0001@t-online.de